<p>Hi all,
I dropped out of high school during the first semester of my freshman year and later got a GED. I returned to a CC when I was 22 and got my AA with a 3.97 GPA - with some hard classes. Will my not going to high school kill my shot at transfering to a top 20 university, will it be an asset since it makes me stand out, or will it not play much of a factor since I have two years of college?</p>
<p>Has anyone else dropped out and went on to transfer to a very good university?</p>
<p>Thanks much</p>
<p>If you mean literally “top 20,” I think your biggest obstacle may be that it’s just ridiculously hard to transfer into them from anywhere. Princeton, for example, is not currently accepting transfers, and Stanford last year accepted 25 of over 1250 applicants–about 2%.</p>
<p>If you mean, “a selective, well respected college,” then I think many of them will decide that your community college success makes your high school experience completely irrelevant.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply.
I’ve looked at the admissions rates, and I’m not going to stress out over universities that have an acceptance rate much below 10% for transfers. Stanford is definitely off my radar. But I’d love to go to cornell, Berkley or University of Penn, but I’d pretty much just as happy getting into Brown, Northwestern, Rice, or Wanington at St. Louis. I was planning on making Vanderbilt and University of Virginia my safeties and maybe one or two guarantees near where I live. I’d be very happy at any of the above school, my application’s just so screwy I don’t know what to expect.
-Isaac</p>